Personal letters and drawings herein portray the life of a young soldier, Private Clarence Augustus Bush, during World War I. While serving in France he wrote home frequently to his bride Margaret. The 101st Field Artillery of 26th Division from New England, C Battery; abruptly left Camp Devens, Massachusetts in early September 1917. In France, Clarence drove horse-drawn caissons carrying artillery ammunition to the front lines while facing artillery fire, bombings, mustard gas, explosions, sleepless nights, knee-deep mud and freezing rain. Clarence drew portraits of fellow soldiers, French villages and the French countryside. His first-person account of the Second Battle of the Marne was published in the Christian Science Monitor as a series in 1918.